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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4885810" data-attributes="member: 2067">I'd be cool with Greyhawk. Since I got into the game late in 2e, this would be the first version of the world that I could actually buy. There might be a few things you could exploit about the "old-school-ness" of the setting that 4e has pushed to the background, or only contains hints of. I'm not sure that it IS Greyhawk, but I'd be fine with that.However, I do think the reasons above don't hold that much water. To wit:I don't think it's in WotC's interest to "quiet" anything down, and I don't think there's anything to ignite out side of message boards. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Indeed, if WotC was hoping to undermine Paizo's claim on the "real D&D experience", assuming Paizo even really has that claim, putting out Greyhawk would be pretty smart.Going back to "Gary's Original Vision" would be a fitting homage to the father of our hobby, and satisfy most people who would be interested in a 4e Greyhawk. It would also let WotC very classily dedicate a book to the man's memory, especially if they anchor it in Gygaxian D&D tropes born of that first setting.Since every setting in 4e is there to loot for the core, I don't think this is a case against it in quite the same way that it is a case against Ravenloft, Spelljammer, and Planescape. It's not like Bane being a core god meant they aren't putting out FR, or that Warforged and Changelings being in the MM meant they aren't putting out Eberron. But in a lot of ways, Planescape IS Sigil (for instance), so seeing Sigil in the DMG 2 means that there's not much left for a PS setting to go over, necessarily. If we saw the Free City of Greyhawk in the DMG 2, I think the chances of Greyhawk being a setting might be lower.There hasn't been much hinting at Greyhawk aside from the "old school appeal" angle, though Greyhawk would meet that in spades.</blockquote>

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